In India couple take their mentally challenged adult son on a pilgrimage to a religious festival.
This is a trip you need to take. What begins as a slice of life about how someone with mental issues is treated in rural India, becomes something of a gut punch. This is a film that changes as it goes and becomes wonderful as it does so. I was moved.
While I don't know anything of the specifics of the story, I do know how people with mental issues are treated. Because I have had friends with issues, and I saw the cruelty and the complications that parents have to deal with.
I don't want to say to much. The power of the film is not knowing where it is going. I will say that this is a gem you will want to track down. This will take you somewhere you've never been before, have you see the world in a new way and make you confront things you never thought of.
One of the great finds of Toronto
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